Dn the Haut-Jura natural park, three kilometers from the Swiss border, is located at an altitude of 1,150 meters, a most unique cheese making place. These are not green mountain pastures against a backdrop of snow-capped peaks, or natural caves sheltering Roquefort bread. This is a place built by humans, which doesn’t look like a sheep pen or a dairy farm but like a military fort. And not just any fort, Fort des Rousses, the second largest French fort, after Mont-Valérien, at Suresnes. Demilitarized after the suspension of conscription by Jacques Chirac in 1996, it was purchased and converted by Jean-Charles Arnaud, an important figure in the Comté sector, in the temple of maturation. Make cheese, not war.
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